President Barack Obama involved the protection of intellectual property rights during a Google+ hangout Monday evening, however said such protection should be done “in the simplest way that’s in line with net freedom.”
Obama was replying to an issue submitted over YouTube regarding his stance on the Stop on-line Piracy Act (SOPA), that currently lies dormant within the House of Representatives. SOPA (and its sister bill within the Senate, shield IP Act, or PIPA) was the target of a coordinated net blackout protest in mid-January. Days when the web protest, each SOPA and PIPA were shelved indefinitely.
Obama cited yankee intellectual property as a very important export, whereas conjointly saying America must use caution to shield the “fundamental integrity of the web as an open and clear system.”
The Google+ hangout was the fruits of a digitally-intensive week for the White House that was targeted around Jan. 24?s State of the Union address. White House officers, as well as vice chairman Joseph Biden, were taking queries live over Twitter throughout the week.
According to Steve Grove, head of community partnerships for Google+, over 135,000 individuals submitted inquiries to the hangout. Google and YouTube selected the queries primarily based on the quantity of votes every question received by alternative users throughout the past few days. Grove conjointly said that neither President Obama nor Macon Phillips, the White House’s director of latest media, knew the chosen queries prior to.
The Obama administration previously made its anti-SOPA position public in a blog post responding to a We The People petition.
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